Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, September 26, 1914, Postscript Edition, Page 11, Image 11

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EVENING fiimifi--Bi-R.PHIIiADBIiPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2-jjMl
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BEFORE THE SANDMAN COMES
JIMMYI Jimmy South-brcczc,
cniiic here a minute!''
Mrs. South-brcczc called soft
ly through the trees till Jimmy heard
her and came blowing up to sec what
she wanted.
"I find I have to go on a little
southern journey," she said.
"Something about our winter home,
mother?" asked Jimmy.
"Exactly that," replied Mrs. South
brcczc, "but I'm not ready to take
you with me yet this is just a little
exploring trip. I'll not be gone more
than two or three days. You make
yourself busy and happy here in the
garden till I return."
"All right, Mother," answered Jim
my, "and I'll watch for you every
evening."
And Mrs. South-brcczc blew away
toward the Southland.
"Now I wonder what I'm going to
do first," said Jimmy to himself; "it
feels very queer to be alone in the
garden."
"You're not alone," whispered a
quiet little voice, "I'll stay and keep
you company if. you like."
"Indeed I do like!" replied Jimmy,
warmly, "but if you -please, who are
you?"
A gay little laugh was his only an
swer. "Susy Wcst-breczc!" exclaimed
Jimmy, half-provoked, "do you mean
to say that was you talking so sweet
ly ami softly! The last time I saw
you you were ranting around the
garden in a regular hurricane I"
Susy laughed softly.
"Yes, indeed, this is your very same
cousin. You never can tell about us
West-brcczcsl Sometimes wc rage
and sometimes wc smile! But I feci
in a very nice humor just now. Don't
you want to play?" And Susy smiled
and sang so enticingly that of course
Jimmy wanted to play with her who
wouldn't?
I guess she forgot I" Now who could
that be?
Jimmy and Susy looked all around
the garden. It was the big old sun
flower hack by the alley fcnccl
"Indeed wc will help you," replied
the breezes, "but how can wc get the
seeds?"
"Just shake me real hard and they'll
fall right out into your arms," said
the sunflower.
Jimmy and Susy laughed, and then
shook that old sunflower till the
brown seeds rattled out!
All over the garden, the alley and
the lawn they scattered those seeds
so thoroughly that next summer the
garden looked like a sunflower patch.
So interested were Susy and Jimmy
in their seed scattering that they for
got about playing and worked all the
time till Mrs. South-breeze came back
and told them they were two extra
fine children!
Copyright, 1011, by 'Clara Ingram Judson.
BLACKBIRDS AT ARDMORE
"Susy West-Brcezc!" exclaimed
Jimmy, half-provoked.
"All right," he said, "mother has
gone away and I have two whole
days to do just as I please with."
"What do you want to do first?"
"Please, before you start playing,
won't you help me scatter my seeds?
Your mother promised her help, but
Public School Made Resting Place by
Hundreds of Them.
Ardmore has been suffering from a
plague of blackbirds. Hundreds of the
birds have settled, for n time, in the
lclnlty of School lane and Ardmore ave
nue, where a larne public srliool u.n
located. They caused considerable dam
age, and residents llnally appealed to
the police for the right to shoot them
Captain of Police Donaghy said that
would be asalnst the game laws. So he
sent Charles Hall, Janitor of the Station
house, to the place. Hall and John
Struthers, Janitor of the school, climbed
to the school house roof and tried to
frighten tho birds off by firing blanks
from shotguns. Soon a flood of tele
Phone mesbiiges were coming to Captain
Donaghy from residents of tho neigh
boihood, complaining that two colored
men were shooting blackbirds.
By MALCOLM S. JOHNSTON
'HE evening comes, the day is
done,
I have my little nightgown on.
Before my mother turns the light
And kisses me the last good night,
I kneel beside my cribby bed
And fold my hands and bow my
head ;
And while her fingers smooth my
hair,
She teaches me to say this prayer:
Dear God, I thank Thee for this day,
And health and strength so I might
play;
For light and love and pleasant food,
And for the times that I've been
good.
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I'm sorry for all deeds ill done;
I'm sorry for them, one by one;
Dear Father, may Thine angels
bright
Keep me from evil day and night.
When on my pillows I shall sink,
Of Jesus, Thy dear Son, I'll think;
For on His strong, His gentle arm,
No child of Thine can come to harm.
May parents, relatives and friends
All know Thy love which far ex
tends, By day and night, asleep, awake,
To bless and help, for Jesus' sake.
Amen.
corimaiiTico 10U r mtconi . Johnston.
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The World's Most Remarkable Prison!
THE OLD BRITISH
Convict Ship "Success
The Oldest Ship Afloat (Launched 1790 A. D.) and Only Remaining Convict Ship in the World
Now in Philadelphia, at Market St. Wharf
On a Final Tour of the World, on Her Way to San Francisco, Where She Will Be a Feature
of the Great Panama Exposition
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This Wonderful Vessel
Has Made History
through three centuries. She marked the be
bcglnning nnd the end of England's monstrous
penal system.
She has held lurid horror and dreadful In
iquities beside which even tho terrible stories
of the Black Hole of Calcutta and the Spanish
Inquisition pale into Insignificance.
Sho is tho oldest ship in tho world and the
only Convict Ship left afloat out of that dread
ful llect of ocean hells which sailed tho seven
sens in 1790 A. D.
Sho is unchanged after all theso years, nottr
Ing being omitted but her human freight and
their sufferings from the cruelties and barbari
ties practiced upon them.
Aboard her are now shown In their original
state, all tho airless dungeons and condemned
cells, tho whipping posts, the manacles, the
branding irons, the punishment halls, the
leaden-tlppeil cat-o'nlne tails, the coflin bath
and the other fiendish inventions of mans bru
tality to his fellow-man.
From keel to topmast sho cries aloud the
grcntest lesson the world hns over known In
the history of human progress.
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This Wonderful Vessel Has Been Visited by Over 15,000,000 Fifteen Million) PEOPLE
Including most of the crowned heads of Europe, and has received the patronage of many leading State
and city officials since her arrival in America. The world's greatest men have written volumes about her.
What the Press of Two Continents Says of the Convict Ship " Success "
No other exhibition ever received the publicity accorded by the world's press to the "Success."
Leaders of public opinion everywhere realize that in her lies a great and striking object lesson of the
softening and civilizing influences that are now animating human progress. A few extracts from many
thousands
Governor Foss, of Mass., Wrote:
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Executive Department.
. Boston. October 28, 1012.
CAPT. D. H. SMITH,
Convict Ship "Success":
My Dear Sir: Your ship nnd her oquipment of old instruments of punish
ment briiiK to mind as nothing elso could the social conditions which wo havo
outprown iIurliiK tho past 100 years. I am very Klail that tho people- of
Massachusetts have had this opportunity to see the strides that havo nlremly
been made towards better methods of treatment, for I think your exhibition
will act an an added incontlvo towards the further improvement of our insti
tutional mothods. I think you are doIiiK a Kreat public service- bv tho
exhibition of these horrible and obsolete prison methods.
Very truly yours,
El'GENE N. FOSS, Governor.
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Governor Pothier, of R. I., Wrote:
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS,
Executive Department.
CAPT. D. II. SMITH, Provldenre, November 20, 1912
Uritlsh Coin let Ship "Success," Providence, It. I.:
Mv Dear Sir: After m Intprnqtlnr. t.iait ........ i,i., .,
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,.......,. .t ... , . , uum. uiiiiuu in uuj- iiujr nun iii not (nipntto such Inhuman
treatment of unfortunntcs and such cruelty as was practiced In tho days of
the convict ship "Success." It hns become tho great power of tho world nmi
ATTENTIVE. MAKES TlmONES TREMBLE AND aoVEUNMENTS
I tuhu this opportunity of thanklns: you for your invitation to inspect this
historical vessel, ' """
Yours very truly.
A. J. POTHIER, Govornor.
Governor Mann, of Virginia, Wrote:
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
RICHMOND, VA January 1814
CAPT. D. H. SMITH. "rallr l,1-
British Prison Ship "Success."
My Pear Sir: I write to express tho pleasure I onjoyod nnd bonoflt
received from n visit to the "Success." It carried one bacli not only to n
different time, but to entirely different sentiments in reference to thoso who
ure always tiUHInB about tho good old times. In truth, tho world is not onlv
IiroBi-essltiB. but la BettliiB better, and many Kood people have wnlseVl up to
the conclusion that one crime noes not muke a criminal or bar him from
becoming u Bood citizen nnd useful man. " ,""11
I tniht that the 'Success" may be visited by many peonlo nnd tho
contrast between the old and new methods of t rent in e C ?! i i
violated the law result in good of soc.ety. " B, ZT ny Lr y hichlv
appreciate the courtcMifs shown us while on your ship P'i". "lenly
Very truly yours,
VM. HODGES MANN, Gmernor of Virginia.
AMERICA
On Mny B, 1012, Mr. Arthur Brisbane, tho distinguished
editor of the New York Journal, In a full-page editorial,
vhich was reproduced in ten other leading dailv papers
throughout the States, devoted his brilliant pen to a picture
of the Convirt Ship "Success ' as a vivid and striking lesson
in thH progress of humanity and civilization. Describing the
Convict Ship as n sad but valuable lesson to the people of
America, he wrote:
"When yuu study theso scenes of cruelty and atrocious
torture, when you realize they have disappeared forever from
the earth, except in isolated savage corners of the world,
whore men revert to animalism, and when you realize that
these scenes of cruelty, brutal as they are. wero as nothing
as compared with what preceded them, you realize that this
world DOHS advance.
... it shows what government did to tho poor, the
Ignorant, tho helpless making them Infinitely worse than
they were at rtrst. even though they were the worst criminals.
"p can thank God that the Convict Ship, with
the men tortured and branded, is today an exhibition. Intended
nnd brTt ll""'" " Ker a dreac,tu' reality, planned to punish
i:V VnilK linnAI.ll. March ao. 11)12 "America hns rap
tured one of Lngland's most historic ships, one of the most
Interesting vessels braving the breeze at tho present day."
llosTov 'rittXritlPT, nn, 20. 1012 "Let us send this
convict hulk, this eloauent rebuke to penal systems, around
the world She is a doatlng parahle of the crimes of man
against man And when she has finished her mission, search
out the deepest foundings In the Pacific nnd there sink her
and tho thing she signifies In a thousand fathoms of dis
honored oblivion."
GREAT BRITAIN
rnilK i:-.VMInil, Mn .t, 1012 "Her story Is the most
extrnordin:ir one that could he told of tho real life of a shin'
it evceeds In welrdness the legend of Vanderdecken's Flying
Dutchman nnd vies In horrors with the wondrous phantasy
of Coleridge's -The Ancient Mariner.'"
J'.!'1, .VmV'1.'." v'FrTn' M" -N' I'I2 "In all the world It
would be dltheult to find a craft with a morn interesting his
toid than the old teak-built barquentine 'Success'"
ll.l.l'NTH Ti:n I.OMION i:w. prll n. 1IU2 "As n relic
of the dns when a man would he transported for stealing a
two-penny pie. and hanged for ery little more, she Is of re
markable Interest"
AMERICA
nil. I'll.VNK fit VXi:, the brilliant Editorial writer of th
mSV?"S: sallunK '" " 1-a,l",B nr,U'lB '" "&tVn&r.auSa
" m,. IItrC 'ou H0 punishment raised to its highest
power The record of the cru. Hies hero practlcod by the
Knglfh people Is so frightful th.it no one can bo blamed for
not believing it. tho truth is rno.o Incredible that, the TlIdeHt
SSth "ntle. J":pi,J3lbl to bt'",,v" Ulu 8torV. is Perfectly
... r1".' 'i,ho y.nst ,h'.s sn,,Kt 8,h,P salls to " so"'! oak
we (n touch. Its rut munarles are nil too tangible Its
hideous rolls our feet row explore Its appalling recor L
books and documents, no can see with our own ee?"
1M1VIUN Tif VVIJI.IJII. .Mine 111, 11112- "The 'Sucrebg' today
is as the bulks the (John Hovle O Itellly and James J. rTrey
Roehel putured the same in her barred cells, tho fc.uno In
her yihbet-h.iltcr. tho same In all u.ivs vnwm th,,t .1, .iu.
"iierj. aie not inside her to ilutch the gratings whuh iluhe her
hatiliivub and erj out to the situate patch of nky above
THE CONVICT SHIP WTT.T. TVT?VT?T7 AnATMDroMranmT ArT.rTTT4
and moTtS yours will be the regret at not having een the greatest
miserable victims, the past will speak tiyoti iS s- d J!, 1 L - J!1 you V hX' gro"ve( . w,t the chains of her
live in a better ace Wealth v Wi,!; " i m-,' ul moi'Hiiul lesson, but you will leave feeling bettor, because you
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Do not miss this profound illustrat on of 'the most v fl fn f m-St l)oioPT Vns P"SOn thr wo.rW lms ever nown'
of the ship's stay in Philadelphia tie r?ce of Padmfssion wfff be '" betterment of the ae- DuB the short period
Admission
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Open to the Public Daily From 9 a. m. to
10 p. m Market St. Wharf (between
Market and Chestnut Sts.)
NOTEThe Convict Ship can be boarded direct by gangway
from the wharf. Sho is lighted throughout by electricity
and can be visited by night as well as by day.
Admission
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